Author of The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold. Politico Health Reporter, covering states’ health policy and politics.
Jul 31, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A thread on @NYGovCuomo announcement today. He directed his own insurance chief to ignore rate request increases tied to the individual mandate repeal. This is damaging to the market. Cuomo is a supporter of the ACA but Trump couldn’t do a better job of hurting NY if he...
tried. Why? B/c the mandate is already gone and Cuomo is just saying NY insurers should pretend it isn’t. The other problem here is that NY budgeted a 22.4 percent increase in the benchmark silver plan. That money brings in federal revenue through the EP (it’s pegged to APTC) 2/